Michael Shewmaker is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Born in Texarkana, Texas, he earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife.

Photo Found on a Dead Man’s Phone

an iPoem

by Michael Shewmaker

A field. No clouds. Tall grasses bend
toward the foreground. In the distance,
three pheasants break above the brush,
against the wind.

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